The Last Poets With Bernard Purdie – Delights Of The Garden
Tracklist
| A1 | It's A Trip | 4:44 | |
| A2 | Ho Chi Min | 5:16 | |
| A3 | Blessed Are Those Who Struggle | 3:41 | |
| A4 | The Pill | 5:08 | |
| A5 | Delights Of The Garden | 3:47 | |
| B1 | Be | 6:19 | |
| B2 | Yond | 4:58 | |
| B3 | Er | 7:36 |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Casablanca Record And Filmworks, Inc.
- Copyright © – Casablanca Record And Filmworks, Inc.
- Manufactured By – Casablanca Record And Filmworks, Inc.
- Distributed By – Casablanca Record And Filmworks, Inc.
- Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria
- Mastered At – Masterdisk
- Lacquer Cut At – Masterdisk
Credits
- Bass – Alex Blake (2) (tracks: A2)
- Bass, Guitar – Mann (2)
- Composed By – Jalaluddin Mansur Nurriddin* (tracks: B1 to B3), Suliaman El Hadi* (tracks: A1 to A5)
- Drums – Bernard Purdie
- Lacquer Cut By – JG*
- Producer – Alan Douglas, The Last Poets
- Voice [Voices], Congas, Percussion – Abu Mustapha*, Suliaman El Hadi*
- Voice [Voices], Percussion – Jalaluddin Mansur Nurriddin*
Notes
B1-B3 = 'BeYondEr'
Douglas, Dist. by Casablanca Record & Filmworks, Inc.
Two-sided lyric sheet insert.
Douglas, Dist. by Casablanca Record & Filmworks, Inc.
Two-sided lyric sheet insert.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped/etched): MASTERDISK audio 3-20-77 JG S NBLP-7051-A csm-5
- Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched:stamped): JG NBLP-7051-B- csm-4 MASTERDISK
- Pressing Plant ID (In runouts): csm
Other Versions (5 of 12)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Submission | Delights Of The Garden (LP, Album, Promo) | Douglas | NBLP 7051 DJ | US | 1977 | ||
New Submission | Delights Of The Garden (LP, Album, Terre Haute Pressing) | Douglas | NBLP 7051 | US | 1977 | ||
New Submission | Delights Of The Garden (8-Track Cartridge, Album) | Douglas, Douglas | NBL-87051, NBL 87051 | US | 1977 | ||
New Submission | Delights Of The Garden (8-Track Cartridge, Album) | Douglas | NBL8-7051 | US | 1977 | ||
New Submission | Delights Of The Garden (LP, Album, Pitman Pressing) | Douglas | NBLP 7051 | US | 1977 |
Recommendations
Reviews
This is really interesting album for the one interested in early rap / hip-hop music development. First releases of this album predated first official rap music releases by few years, but sounds so much close to it. Funk is the father of rap music, and poetry is it's mother :)- It's A Trip from this album was in legendary Blackpool Mecca DJ Colin Curtis's last-hour top ten playlist at one time.
It's not Northern Soul by any stretch so I don't really know how he got away with it at that purist venue.... but then again Colin never stood still for long.
It's A Trip is a fierce fusion of heavy afrobeat funk-futurist drumming, courtesy of the one and only Bernard Purdie, and superb pre-rap rapping and chanting from the one and only Last Poets. An exciting track, completely out of time, that still works well today.
The rest of the album can't really live up to that track and I don't often play through it. The Pill is really weird as well.... highly suspect track.
Release
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